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Hosted by Andy Budd · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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The Design VC is a podcast about the intersection of creativity and capital — and how design can help early-stage startups turn vision into traction. Each week, I talk with founders, investors, and founding designers about the decisions that shape the hunt for product–market fit: when to bring design in, what to look for in a great founding designer, and how design helps you earn traction (not just attention) by getting what you’re building into the hands of customers faster. We get practical about the questions founders actually have. When should I hire a designer? What value can design bring before you’ve nailed the product? How do you use design to sharpen positioning, improve onboarding, and increase activation — not just make things look nicer? Along the way, you’ll hear how investors think about design as a signal and a competitive edge, and how the best teams navigate the trade-offs — speed versus craft, instinct versus evidence, product
Andy Budd hosts The Design VC, a business show with 12 episodes published.
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Simon Rohrbach, founder and CEO of Plain, a customer support platform built for modern B2B teams. Andy first met Simon years ago when Simon was leading design at
In this episode of The Design VC , Andy Budd sits down with Simon Rohrbach, founder and CEO of Plain, a customer support platform built for modern B2B teams. Andy first met Simon years ago when Simon was leading design a
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Luke Wroblewski, one of the early pioneers of UX and interaction design, now Managing Director and Head of Product at Sutter Hill Ventures. Luke’s led design at
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Luke Wroblewski, one of the early pioneers of UX and interaction design, now Managing Director and Head of Product at Sutter Hill Ventures. Luke’s led design at
Irene Au is one of those rare people who helped shape modern product design from the inside, then took those lessons into venture. In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Irene, who was Yahoo’s first i
It might surprise some listeners to hear that, as a VC, I spend a lot of my time encouraging founders to think twice before taking traditional VC money. Not because VC is “bad”, but because it comes with a very specific
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with his old friend Marty Ringlein for one of those conversations that’s equal parts entertaining and genuinely useful. Marty has a rare career arc. He started by bui
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Jeff, one of the founders of Adaptive Path, co-founder of MeasureMap (acquired by Google), founder of Typekit (which went on to become part of Adobe Creative Clo
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd sits down with Jeff, one of the founders of Adaptive Path, co-founder of MeasureMap (acquired by Google), founder of Typekit (which went on to become part of Adobe Creative Clo
Most weeks, as a VC, I’m talking to founders who want to build huge, global, venture-scale companies. So this conversation with Jessica Hische was a breath of fresh air. Jessica is one of the most recognised names in mod
In this episode of The Design VC, Andy Budd talks with Ben Blumenrose, co-founder and managing partner of Designer Fund, about what it really looks like when design becomes the organising principle, not the garnish. Ben
In this week’s episode of The Design VC , Andy Budd sits down with Sam Stevenson , designer-turned co-founder of Granola , “the AI notepad built for people in back-to-back meetings.” Granola didn’t launch into an empty m
A lot of early-stage problems don’t look like “design problems” at first. They look like confusion. Misalignment. A story that isn’t landing. A team shipping hard but not getting traction. In this episode I’m joined by K
Most startups don’t fail because the team can’t build. They fail because they can’t decide what to build, and they waste months proving it the slow way. In this episode I’m joined by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky , best k
Intercom didn’t start as Intercom. In this first episode of The Design VC , Des Traynor takes us back to the scrappy days of running a design consultancy with a side project, and the moment a tiny in-app message, a speec
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The Design VC is hosted by Andy Budd. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 12 episodes.
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